#10326: Various clean-up in local/bin/sage-sage
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: jason
Type: enhancement | Status: positive_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.6.1
Component: misc | Keywords: scripts sage-sage
Author: Jeroen Demeyer | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Rob Beezer | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by leif):
In any case an improvement, but still room for more... ;-)
* For educational purposes, what about listing the long options with
double-dash [only]? (I don't think we have to mention that Sage also
currently supports long options with just a single dash.)
* What about using "here" documents rather than cascades of `echo`s?
(Perhaps more than one per `usage()` though.)
* What about using the shell's pattern matching for option parsing? (This
is more readable, avoids problems with potentially broken `test`s, and is
in some cases less redundant.)
* I would list "coverage" under "testing", not "documentation".
* We could support `sage -h <topic>` or alike (`sage help
<topic|option>`).
There are some flaws or omissions (can't list them all here, just a few):
* {{{s/debuging/debugging/}}}
* `-clone` doesn't "run" the new branch.
* `-b` without a branch (re)builds the current. (And `-b main` switches
back to the "original", hopefully unmodified...)
* `-s` is also valid in conjunction with `-f` (but only as the second
argument, like with `-i`).
* If you run `sage` with a file given, the extension is mandatory, and
you can also pass further arguments to it (ending up in `sys.argv`), so
the usage is
{{{
sage filename.{sage, py, spyx} [arguments]
}}}
or
{{{
sage filename.<sage|py|spyx> [arguments]
}}}
* `-update` and `-update-build` are obsolete, or at least currently
unsupported.
* `-t` etc. also takes the additional options `-force_lib` and `-sagenb`.
* `-testall` also takes additional options, like e.g. `-long`.
* ... (I don't recall... ;-) )
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